Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Extraversion And Introversion, Psychosexual Development, Oral Stage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Lecture one perspective on personality: psychodynamic & train. Research methods (experimental i. e. naturalistic, case studies, and surveys) Personality: individual differences that are stable over time and consistent across situation. Chapter 2 discusses 4 different perspective to origin of personality. In lectures focusing on 2 fundamentally different perspective: psychodynamic & trait. Begin with the most influential and controversial theories by a very controversial theorist in psychology sigmund freud. Part1: freud"s psychodynamic perspective: freud is the best known psychologist, freud, interestingly was never trained for psychology, he a trained doctor with a focus neuroscience. Freud came across a # of patients with these conditions: hysteria: unusual symptoms (but no physical basis) Patient loses feeling in the hand wrist down. Given the way blood vessels (nerves are distributed physiologically impossible to lose feeling in the entire hand and nowhere else. These patients reported childhood sexual experiences with adults (?)